Tampa ChapterNational SocietyDaughters of the American RevolutionTampa, Florida

In the Heart of the Sunshine State, Tampa, Florida has a varied and interesting history as a pirate haven, a cigar center, a military center for the Seminole Wars, a center for Spanish, Asturian, Italian, and Cuban settlers, the departure point for Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, a tourist destination, a center for learning, a financial center, an agricultural center that features strawberries and tomatoes, one of the largest ports in the south, and the location of U. S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base.

View of Downtown Tampa from the famous Bayshore Boulevard,the longest "sidewalk" in the world.